Jules Renard

“Ecrire, c'est une façon de parler sans être interrompu.(Writing, it's a way of speaking without being interrupted.)”

“L'amore è come una clessidra: man mano che il cuore si riempie, il cervello si svuota.”

“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”

“Ajouter deux lettres à Paris, c'est le paradis.”

“If money does not make you happy, give it back”

“N'écoutant que son courage, qui ne lui disait rien, il se garda bien d'intervenir”

“the important people in our lives leave imprints. they may die or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart”

“To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.”

“L' amour est comme un sablier, avec le coeur remplir le vide du cerveau”

“If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.”

“Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.”

“There are no friends; only moments of friendship.”

“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”

“Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you”

“There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.”

“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none”

“In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.”

“He walked noisily, like a fish.”

“The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.”

“if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.”

“It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.”

“I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?”

“Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?”

“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.”

“God does not believe in our God.”

“At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.”

“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.”

“I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.”

“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”

“Wrinkles are engraved smiles.”

“There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.”

“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.”

“I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.”

“The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”

“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”

“As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more.”

“Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”

“I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.”

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”

“It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.”

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”